Published on 12:00 AM, August 25, 2022

Covid jabs for kids start in port city

16 schoolchildren, aged 5-11 years, receive first shot of specially made Covid-19 vaccine at an event in Dhaka on August 11, 2022 as part of the "trial run" before the main campaign begins from August 25, 2022. File Photo: Moudud Sujan
Staff Correspondent, Ctg

Covid-19 vaccination for children aged between five and 11 started in Chattogram city yesterday, although the programme was supposed to start across the country today.

City Mayor Rezaul Karim Chowdhury inaugurated the programme at Chattogram Municipal Government Primary School in the morning.

Terming the programme "symbolic", Jaharlal Hazari, Chattogram City Corporation standing committee chairman for health affairs, told The Daily Star that the vaccination programme would formally start from today in the port city like elsewhere in the country.

"Today, the mayor of CCC inaugurated the symbolic programme to vaccinate a total of 300 children in a primary school," he said.

Hazari said a total of 4,00,000 children of the age group would be vaccinated under the programme in the city.

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